handmade soap & other personal care

Outlaw Soaps are handmade in Colfax, California by Mr. Russell Vincent, our co-owner, co-founder, and all around badass.

We taught ourselves how to make soap, and since those early days (in 2013), we have developed many time-honed techniques that enable us to make larger batches of the finest handcrafted soaps around, in terms of composition, scent, and artistry.

All our soaps are made with a natural combination of oils (avocado, coconut, olive, and castor) and are free from chemical hardeners (so be sure to keep your handmade soaps out of standing water). We are 100% against animal testing (our dogs are woefully unbathed) and our soaps are vegan (our colognes and lip balms contain beeswax).

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People often ask us to make various products, and we are a highly democratic company, so we often entertain these requests. One such oft-requested products is deodorant.

If you remember from my previous post on How to make body wash in one million easy steps, the first step is researching market viability. In the case of both body was and deodorant, the volume of requests is enough to establish market viability.

The second step is where we always get stuck with deodorant: the ingredients and process to create handmade deodorant (natural or not) is complicated. The packaging and ingredients are expensive. When we do the cost evaluation, we end up with a product that would cost about $25 for one stick of deodorant.

At that point, the market viability drops off. Not many people would like to buy deodorant at $25/item, even if it is amazing stuff.

To recap: - We are based in a very small town that was hit hard by The Recession (Colfax, California). - The money from our business supports local economic recovery, since we are hiring local people and spending at local businesses. - Because of some complications of "manufacturing" in the historic district, our future in Colfax has been uncertain. - In the interest of letting you know your impact in the world, I figured you might be interested in the developments of our business in the rural city.

After a lot of deliberation, we have decided to try to keep our business in Colfax, while also moving our production to a more industrial area in a nearby town, Grass Valley, California.